The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household and that is my family's faith.
Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.
While civilization has been improving our houses it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.